Mozambique Successes

In April 2012, Rick attended TechnoServe’s southern Africa regional meeting in Nampula, pretty far north in Mozambique. This included a field trip to a successful client who owns a grain milling company.* In rural Mozambique, if people can afford it, they take whole grain to be locally milled which provides a significant labor-saving alternative to […]

In 2004, 65 percent of the frozen broiler chickens for sale in Mozambique were imported from Brazil.* The Brazilian chickens were frozen and shipped through the Middle East. By the time they arrived, they were often past their sell-by date, in violation of Mozambican import restrictions. Incredibly, the Brazilian product was cheaper than the Mozambican […]

Mozambique’s once-thriving cashew industry had tanked due to political and natural disasters.* The cashew industry is now thriving. The small village of Namige, Mozambique demonstrates how identifying high-potential entrepreneurs and giving them the tools to achieve success is a way to locally solve global issues. The cumulative impact of decolonization, civil war, misguided policies and […]